[B-Greek] Adding accents
Timothy S. Nelson
wayland at wayland.id.au
Tue Feb 16 17:57:46 EST 2010
On Sun, 24 Jan 2010, Ruth Mathys wrote:
> Am I the only person who finds it really counter-intuitive to type the
> accent first, and then the letter? It's not how I write by hand (does
> anybody?), so I need a system that lets me do the letter first. Or do just
> the letters, and go back and put the accents in later ;-)
>
> I find I can touchtype reasonably well with a mapping that lets me 'cheat'
> by equating theta with Q, omega with W, etc. I know it's not how a modern
> Greek keyboard is laid out (at least not according to the 'polytonic Greek'
> keyboard mapping on my Mac), but it works for me and I'm not too proud to
> use it.
This problem is specific to your operating system and keyboard layout.
I know how to solve this problem on my computer (although I haven't gotten
around to it yet), but since you're using a Mac, and I'm using Linux, what I
know would most likely not transfer.
The setup you're using is what is called a "dead keys" setup; you type
the accent first, and nothing happens (this is the dead key). Then you press
the other key, and both symbols appear at once.
The setup that would work would be a pure Unicode setup; first you
would press eg. the alpha key, which would display an alpha immediately, then
you would press the accent key, which would put an accent on the previous
character.
As to how to actually do that on a Mac, I'm afraid I don't have an
answer. But maybe I've helped you at least move in the right direction by
giving you some idea of what questions to ask, and what people might be
talking about. Note that "pure unicode" is not a previously defined technical
term; it simply describes what I see as being the major factor in this
solution, so other people might say "pure unicode", and be referring to
something else.
Anyway, I hope something here helps you in some way.
:)
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